Logan Paul sells Pikachu Illustrator trading card for more than $16.4M
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Logan Paul sells Pikachu Illustrator trading card for more than $16.4M
It's the most expensive trading card ever sold at auction
The WWE star and social media influencer broke a world record when he sold his 1998 Japanese Pikachu Illustrator, graded as a PSA gem mint 10, for more than $16.4 million. It was the only card of its kind to receive the high grade by PSA, which graded 52 others.
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Well ain't that a kick in the crusties.
absolutely insane!!!
not my thing, but i am sure someone is happy
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
Son of a former White House staffer (administration unknown) bought the card...
Need some help here guys. What do I do now if I didn’t mean to hit the bid button?
Now imagine if it had a gold sticker.
The photo in the article shows him wearing this card around his neck, and the PSA slab appears to be encased in some sort of diamond-encrusted larger slab. Perhaps the diamonds added to the high price?
buying O-Pee-Chee (OPC) baseball cards
also collecting US & Canadian silver coins
Hah, $5mil worth of Diamonds! Even $100k worth is a major reach
This Pokemon thing is really showing no signs of slowing down… 30 years in!!!
Live long, and prosper.
I imagine the high bidder will just have kenny drop ship that baby right to MBA!!!!! go for the gold!
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
I'm sure Mike and his buds Brent and Gary can trim that baby into an 11 or 12 plus add one of thems gold pressed latinum diamond stickers.
It's the singer not the song - Peter Townshend (1972)
Not even a minute do I buy the whole buh buh buh I'm a man-child japery - Me (2025)
I read that the card was originally a PSA 9 and was resubmitted a few times buy a previous owner until it finally got bumped to a 10. The first thing the new owner should is get rid of that gaudy looking slab.
Oh good, as long as PSA gets their share of the proceeds through resubumping fees.
The listing indicated the appraised value of the jewelry at $75K. Blingy but not completely nuts.
I give this guy some credit. Although I'm not a fan, he turned that card into a promotion vehicle and cashed in. Pokemon is nuts, but I have to think his promotion of the card over the last couple of years added to its lore and probably generated some additional dollars in the strike price at auction.
do you know how many PSA 1.5 GI Joes you can buy with 16.4 mil
16mil for vertigo intruding presentation. Presents a bit like loose feces IMHO
It's the singer not the song - Peter Townshend (1972)
Not even a minute do I buy the whole buh buh buh I'm a man-child japery - Me (2025)
16.4M?
Hmmmm. That would be 328 million nickels weighing 3.6 million pounds and if melted into a solid cube?
It would be 20X20 feet! 🧊
Don't sleep on that option. Since melt value of a nickel is 6.89 cents right now, that would make the solid block worth $22.6M in metal value, if you were allowed to melt nickels...
I would take 1.64 billion pre-1982 cents instead. That would be $62.4M worth of copper.
Move over Honus and Mickey.
Sounds legit.
Drill holes in the nickels and turn them into $.15 washers. Now they're worth $49.2M.
For that kind of money he could have purchased around 4,000 1957 Topps Willy Mays PSA 8 which would have been a much better investment. The buyer is insane.
Not sports card related. But, the auto parts yard out here is charging nearly 4 dollars for a bolt.
Ken Goldin is…as the kiddos would say…cringe.
It's not even Pikachu's rookie card
Unfortunately Logan Paul sold fractional shares of that card on Liquid Marketplace giving the buyers tokens that became worthless when the scam company went belly up. Those who bought fractional shares are getting nothing so Logan effectively sold the same card before. Hope someday through the courts the minority owners get paid.
If you google Logan Paul Liquid Marketplace scam plenty of coverage. Unfortunately no consequences in the hobby.